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Hotel Mama, vorübergehend geschlossen
Nichts kann die beiden lebenslustigen Endfünfziger und zweifachen Großeltern Tinchen und Florian Bender so leicht aus der Fassung bringen. Doch dann wird's Kinder und Enkel, ein halbvergessener Neffe, eine neue Liebschaft und weitere mehr oder minder sympathische Verwandtenanhängsel kehren ein im »Hotel Mama«. Von einem Moment auf den nächsten stehen Tinchen und Florian dem absoluten Wahnsinn gegenüber – und uns Leser beschleicht der leise Verdacht, es könne sich dabei durchaus auch um das eigene Familienchaos handeln …
- GenresHumor
443 pages, Paperback
Published November 1, 1999
About the author
Evelyn Sanders
43 booksEvelyn Sanders (* 14. Mai 1934 in Berlin; eigentlich Evelyn Stitz) ist eine deutsche Schriftstellerin.
Evelyn Sanders ist in Berlin aufgewachsen. Später siedelte die Familie nach Düsseldorf um. Die gelernte Journalistin widmete sich nach ihrer Hochzeit der Kindererziehung. Ihr erstes Buch entstand eher zufällig, als sie für ihren ältesten Sohn zum Geburtstag ein Fotoalbum zusammen stellte, welches sie ursprünglich nur mit kleinen Texten versehen wollte. Im Folgenden entstanden viele weitere, heitere Familienromane.
Evelyn Sanders ist verwitwet, hat fünf Kinder und lebt als freie Schriftstellerin in Bad Rappenau.
Evelyn Sanders ist in Berlin aufgewachsen. Später siedelte die Familie nach Düsseldorf um. Die gelernte Journalistin widmete sich nach ihrer Hochzeit der Kindererziehung. Ihr erstes Buch entstand eher zufällig, als sie für ihren ältesten Sohn zum Geburtstag ein Fotoalbum zusammen stellte, welches sie ursprünglich nur mit kleinen Texten versehen wollte. Im Folgenden entstanden viele weitere, heitere Familienromane.
Evelyn Sanders ist verwitwet, hat fünf Kinder und lebt als freie Schriftstellerin in Bad Rappenau.
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February 1, 2023
Although to a certain point presenting a decent enough conclusion to the Tinchen und Florian series, one can sadly also tell that author Evelyn Sanders has with her Hotel Mama, vorübergehend geschlossen kind of majorly run out of both steam and new ideas, as especially the chapters describing Tinchen and Florian's vacation weeks in Jamaica do tend to read rather frustratingly and tediously too similarly to both the Bender family's holiday experiences in Kenya (presented in Hühnerbus und Stoppelhopser) and even many of the Sanders' family vacation remembrances from the author's personal memoirs type of books (which I have all read but not as yet reviewed).
And indeed, I do find it more than a trifle annoying and even massively monotonous that in both Hühnerbus und Stoppelhopser and in Hotel Mama, vorübergehend geschlossen, Frau Antonie (Tinchen's mother and Florian's mother-in-law) shares the vacation with Tinchen and Florian. For what was interesting and even rather humorous with regard to Frau Antonie's attitudes, utterances and actions, reactions in Kenya, in Hühnerbus und Stoppelhopsser, has become rather repetitive and monotone in Jamaica, in Hotel Mama, vorübergehend geschlossen, as Frau Antonie's behaviour is rather majorly akin and alike in both novels (and her roommate and live-in companion Frau Klaassen-Knittelbeek who also tags along to Jamaica is really much too often kind of a total mirror image of Frau Antonie in Hotel Mama, vorübergehend geschlossen, so one is actually reading, or rather I personally have felt as though I was indeed rather reading the same holiday experiences as had been portrayed with regard to Frau Antonie in Kenya times two, which while not terrible, and yes even at times entertaining and amusing, has also not been really all that interesting and too annoyingly repetitive in scope). Because I for one was definitely hoping for and expecting to have considerably more novel and imaginative scenarios depicted and described, and Hotel Mama, vorübergehend geschlossen really and unfortunately has at least for the most part been simply a rehashing and reminagining of previously presented and featured Bender family scenarios and themes (perhaps a bit changed and in different wrappers of time and place, but really so similar in set-up, conceptualisation and even style of presentation that I could easily skim most of the story in less than a day simply because there was nothing even remotely new to read about, to smile and laugh about, to with chuckles consider and ponder).
And truly sadly, the one thread of Hotel Mama, vorübergehend geschlosssen that did at first at least somewhat promise to be interesting and even thought-provoking, the fact that during the yearly Bender family reunion Christmas Day feast, hosted by Tinchen and Florian, and to which also are invited Florian's brother Fabian, his annoying wife Gisela, their children, and one of the now of course adult sons, professional jazz musician Rüdiger, brings along as his "date" a biracial singer is kind of allowed to, no, is in fact totally allowed to run dry almost immediately, with no follow-up, with no continuation at all, with no relevant information provided as to what happens next for Rüdiger and Joyce, and with Evelyn Sanders instead opting for the tried and true (read unvaried, monotonous) vacation travel scenarios and the usual and expected chaos of Tinchen and Florian upon their return from Jamaica having their nephew Urban's son Björn move in (as he is having issues at boarding school), funny and entertaining at a certain level perhaps, but so similar to much of Evelyn Sanders' oeuvre in general, that I have most certainly been kept yawning and yes even falling asleep whist reading and definitely feeling majorly annoyed that the Rüdiger and Joyce scenario was not further explored. And thus, only a low three star rating for Hotel Mama, vorübergehend geschlossen (well actually, two and a half stars, but I am grudgingly rounding up to three stars, as Hotel Mama, vorübergehend geschlossen still is a generally readable and humorous enough conclusion to Evelyn Sanders’ Tinchen und Florian novels, although not in any way spectacular and only mildly entertaining at best and with certainly some very much annoying tedium and frustration due to said monotony).
And indeed, I do find it more than a trifle annoying and even massively monotonous that in both Hühnerbus und Stoppelhopser and in Hotel Mama, vorübergehend geschlossen, Frau Antonie (Tinchen's mother and Florian's mother-in-law) shares the vacation with Tinchen and Florian. For what was interesting and even rather humorous with regard to Frau Antonie's attitudes, utterances and actions, reactions in Kenya, in Hühnerbus und Stoppelhopsser, has become rather repetitive and monotone in Jamaica, in Hotel Mama, vorübergehend geschlossen, as Frau Antonie's behaviour is rather majorly akin and alike in both novels (and her roommate and live-in companion Frau Klaassen-Knittelbeek who also tags along to Jamaica is really much too often kind of a total mirror image of Frau Antonie in Hotel Mama, vorübergehend geschlossen, so one is actually reading, or rather I personally have felt as though I was indeed rather reading the same holiday experiences as had been portrayed with regard to Frau Antonie in Kenya times two, which while not terrible, and yes even at times entertaining and amusing, has also not been really all that interesting and too annoyingly repetitive in scope). Because I for one was definitely hoping for and expecting to have considerably more novel and imaginative scenarios depicted and described, and Hotel Mama, vorübergehend geschlossen really and unfortunately has at least for the most part been simply a rehashing and reminagining of previously presented and featured Bender family scenarios and themes (perhaps a bit changed and in different wrappers of time and place, but really so similar in set-up, conceptualisation and even style of presentation that I could easily skim most of the story in less than a day simply because there was nothing even remotely new to read about, to smile and laugh about, to with chuckles consider and ponder).
And truly sadly, the one thread of Hotel Mama, vorübergehend geschlosssen that did at first at least somewhat promise to be interesting and even thought-provoking, the fact that during the yearly Bender family reunion Christmas Day feast, hosted by Tinchen and Florian, and to which also are invited Florian's brother Fabian, his annoying wife Gisela, their children, and one of the now of course adult sons, professional jazz musician Rüdiger, brings along as his "date" a biracial singer is kind of allowed to, no, is in fact totally allowed to run dry almost immediately, with no follow-up, with no continuation at all, with no relevant information provided as to what happens next for Rüdiger and Joyce, and with Evelyn Sanders instead opting for the tried and true (read unvaried, monotonous) vacation travel scenarios and the usual and expected chaos of Tinchen and Florian upon their return from Jamaica having their nephew Urban's son Björn move in (as he is having issues at boarding school), funny and entertaining at a certain level perhaps, but so similar to much of Evelyn Sanders' oeuvre in general, that I have most certainly been kept yawning and yes even falling asleep whist reading and definitely feeling majorly annoyed that the Rüdiger and Joyce scenario was not further explored. And thus, only a low three star rating for Hotel Mama, vorübergehend geschlossen (well actually, two and a half stars, but I am grudgingly rounding up to three stars, as Hotel Mama, vorübergehend geschlossen still is a generally readable and humorous enough conclusion to Evelyn Sanders’ Tinchen und Florian novels, although not in any way spectacular and only mildly entertaining at best and with certainly some very much annoying tedium and frustration due to said monotony).
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